Reality
Comments suggesting the police have to use tasers because they can't use force are garbage. The police can use reasonable force. The question falls to what is reasonable.
The officer in the interview said that the way the taser was used on the 10 year old would do nothing to control the child. He said it would only cause pain. In other words, if the child was dangerous the taser could be expected to make the child more dangerous. I expect the child was not dangerous. I expect the officer choose to inflict pain because he wanted compliance and was too lazy and incompetent to get compliance any other way.
We are all doing a lot of guessing and the inquiry into the Polish fellow's death/murder at YVR makes it clear that the police will lie so it is hard to get good info. Regardless, there are major problems with the use of force by police and the investigations that follow.
The case of Paul Boyd may be the worst example of the problem in BC. From the BC Civil Liberties web site;
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only one officer fired on Mr. Boyd, no other police officers fired a shot;
- the shooting officer fired at least four shots after a direction had been given to the attending officers to “hold their fire;”
- Mr. Boyd was hit by at least four bullets and possibly five bullets after he was completely disarmed, including the final bullet that hit Mr. Boyd in the head when Mr. Boyd was crawling;
There were eight officers standing around mr. Boyd. The one officer put 7 bullets into Paul Boyd before a final shot to the head, for a total of eight shots. The officer claims he shot mr. Boyd in the head because after the first seven shots failed to kill the man he thought Mr. Boyd was wearing a bullet proof vest. In other words, he thought the man might survive the first seven bullets so he put one in the man's head to make sure that didn't happen.
It is obvious from the Criminal Justice Branch statement that the officer went trigger happy and is guilty of murder or manslaughter. Despite this the Criminal Justice Branch found no reason to lay charges. They even said that the officers actions were consistent with his training.
In other words the BC Government Criminal Justice Branch has determined that it is OK for a police officer to shoot someone in the head while that person is unarmed, on the ground at some distance and no threat to anyone.
I have combined my own comments with material from the BC Civil Liberties site. If you want to challenge what I have said, please read the material on the site first so you have a better idea of what may have happened.
Chatter on a web site is a waste of time if you don't do something in response. If you can't think of what to do try looking at the
http://www.bccla.org/ web site. You should get lots of ideas there, even if it is nothing more that making a donation. If people fail to support such organizations then they will fail because the government certainly will not provide support.